Talk:Sharpening jig

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Technically, this should be described as a "sharpening guide" rather than a "sharpening jig".

Technically, it should be described as a "honing guide" (23,000), "sharpening guide" (13,000), "honing jig" (3,400), "sharpening jig" (11,100), "sharpening attachment" (15,900) or any other of various terms that people and/or manufacturers use. The numbers in brackets are the number of hits in Google on each term. Far from scientific, but although "Sharpening Guide" slightly edges out "Sharpening Jig", the latter is more common in Australia and that's where the author of this article lives. Veritas call their product a honing guide and that's the most popular term on Google, so "technically" we're both wrong. SilentC 21:34, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The important point is that it is a "guide" rather than a "jig". 69.158.144.90 02:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well as I said, some people call them guides and some call them jigs. The word jig refers to any device that is used to hold a part in a specific position whilst machining takes place. That can certainly be applied to the subject of this article. Whether you call them jigs or guides is immaterial to the content of the article and this issue is one of the reasons that we have the Redirect keyword, which allows us to redirect all the other variants to the one article. The reason the primary article is called "sharpening jig" is because I wrote it and that's what I call them. You may argue that I am wrong if you wish but as I've shown the term Sharpening Jig is in wide use and the policy here is to not favour a regional variant over any other but to defer to the terminology used by the article's author. If you can show that the term "Sharpening Jig" is not common, or not used for this device, or is incorrect for some other reason (other than because you don't call it that) then we can discuss what the article should be called. In the meantime, "sharpening guide", "honing guide" and "honing jig" all redirect to this article and the important point is that people are able to access the information regardless of what they prefer to call the item in question. SilentC 02:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The user HMS63 has been editing this page with somewhat biased language to promote the jigs his company makes, which is a conflict of interest. See the HMS Enterprises Sharp Skate, and note the link to this wikipedia page in the sidebar. I removed the Sharp Skate jig picture that looked more like a product placement, and also changed the edits by HMS63 which seemed to bias the reader towards using jigs as opposed to hand sharpening. --Mickley (talk) 18:40, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]